Senior Project Manager at Wood

Wood is currently recruiting for a Senior Project Manager with extensive site - based experience in the Mining & Minerals Industry.

Job Objective:

• Identify and communicate the objectives for the project team in accordance with the contract terms, scope of work and corporate policy.
• Communicate these objectives to the project team, Departmental Managers, and Client.
• Organise the project team in consultation with Departmental Managers and agree the assignment of all key personnel.
• Motivate the project team towards the determined objectives, by generating enthusiasm for the project, and by maintaining continued personal interest in achieving set targets.
• Achieve scheduled performance, cost, quality, health, safety and environmental requirements of the project from contract award to Client's acceptance.
• Ensure that designated systems are adopted by the project team as soon as possible, after contract award.
• Negotiate all contract changes with the Client.
• Act as primary contact and maintain satisfactory relations with the Client.
• Ensure that the requirements of secrecy agreements are strictly observed.
• For Project Directors and Senior Project Managers only, deputise when requested for the Manager Operations.
• Be familiar with the current application of computer systems of the business and endeavour to optimise their use and development within the project/department budget, both to solve technical problems and to promote the effective management of information.
• To ensure that the Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality Policy is implemented and understood by all supervised staff.
• Where a Project Executive is assigned to a project, the Project Director / Manager shall report to the Project Executive. This is in no way reduces the single point responsibility of the Project Director / Manager for the successful execution of the project.
• Lead and support assigned proposals. This includes developing in conjunction with proposals the execution strategy.
• Present execution plans at proposal review stage.

Key Accountabilities
Skills / Qualifications
Qualifications:

• Degree or Diploma in Project Management, or
• 15-20 Years experience on projects ina leadership role
• Experience to execute a mega project
• Experience in remote African locations desirable.

Knowledge, skills and experience:

• General engineering knowledge
• Clear understanding of the requirements of the project management body of knowledge
• Experience gained from execution of projects in the Mining sector and understanding key drivers for delivery of successful project execution
• Ability to establish, implement and maintain project and contract programmes.
• Thorough understanding of engineering management processes gained through on site experience
• Experience and knowledge in commercial terms and conditions and the basic Law of Contracts
• Ability to establish and implement Quality Management processes in compliance with the company
• established systems and procedures
• Thorough understanding of the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety regulations
• Thorough understanding of Risk Management processes
• Multi-disciplinary experience of all aspects relating to the area under your control
• Experience of all aspects of multi-discipline projects

Personal attributes:

• Decision making skills
• Analytical / problem solving skills
• High level of numeracy / cost forecasting skills / financial understanding skills
• Interpersonal negotiating and relationship skills.
• Effective conflict resolution skills .
• Excellent organisational skills.